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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: hello- i need help 12 yo undiagnosed |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 08 Dec 2008, 5:22 pm
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Replies: 3
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| I was diagnosed at 15 (I’m 16 now), and yes, I felt a lot of relief! Before being diagnosed (and I think this is applicable for many of us), I was often labeled by teachers and even doctors and psychiatrists as “mentally disturbed,” “weird,” “disrespectful” (one teacher kept insisting that I was mak... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you have problems with dressing yourself? |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 02 May 2008, 6:32 am
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Replies: 38
Views: 3,481
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| Yes. I am severely limited in what I can wear due to sensory issues - clothes can be neither too tight nor too loose, absolutely no high collars, only certain fabrics, no too-stiff anything (but especially waistbands!). If I wear a "bad" piece of clothing for more than a few minutes, I feel like my ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Shunning Oddballs In Order To Be Socially Accepted. |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 6:17 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,538
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| No. I have been the oddball in question, and I know just how unpleasant it is to be "shunned" because people think there is something weird about you. I agree that you should try to make friends with the oddballs. They are usually some of the most interesting people (in my experience), and besides, ... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Imaginary friends? |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2008, 5:54 am
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Replies: 32
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| Oh yeah, even to the present day. My current imaginary friend is a shape-shifting wildcat. Strangely enough, I have never had a human imaginary friend - they are always animals or mythical creatures. I can't even deal with made up people, I guess... :roll: Oh, and I also talk to him almost completel... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: Friendship Board - Ages 15 through 18 |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2008, 4:23 pm
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Replies: 576
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| Name: I seem to have misplaced it... Age: 16 Sex: Female Location(s): North Carolina, USA and Phoenix, AZ, USA Favorite Planet/Moon: Europa Favorite Writers: Philip Pullman, Garth Nix, Neil Gaiman, Anne McCaffrey, etc. etc. Political Leanings: Liberal Interests: Medicine, physics, weather, sci-fi/fa... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Eye contact |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2008, 3:39 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 2,239
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| I have a very hard time looking people in the eye. Until I was about ten or eleven and my parents insisted, I never looked anyone in the eyes at all. Now I can hold eye contact for up to three seconds if I am listening to someone talk. One thing that you can try is briefly looking at a person’s face... |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: How old do you feel? |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2008, 3:14 pm
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Replies: 42
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I'd say about 10 (according to my birth certificate, I'm sixteen). Most days it feels like my agemates were replaced by very strange clones while I was sleeping...  |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hello world (or should I say "planet"?)! |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 22 Apr 2008, 6:19 am
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Replies: 15
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| Lelia and Viola, I was just joking - I am not really keeping score, but if I was I would give you points anyways for being honest. My screen name comes from one of the shapeshifters (someone who can change from a human into an animal; in this case, a tiger) in the series of sci-fi books by Sergei Lu... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Hello world (or should I say "planet"?)! |
| Tigercub |
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Posted: 21 Apr 2008, 7:44 am
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Replies: 15
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| After reading the posts on this site in anonymity for the past few weeks, I have decided that it’s about time to introduce myself. (Although now that I’m here, I remember just how bad I am at writing introductions - oh well, too late now!). I am a sixteen-year-old girl living in NC. I was just diagn... |
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